study work | frankfurt university of applied sciences
How to deal with the center of a city that has already been planned for the most part? At first glance, every street and every square around Frankfurt am Main‘s market hall seems to be occupied with function; traffic, greenery and people have their place to be and to stay. Yet the area in the middle of Europe‘s financial capital has received shockingly little attention when one is within a 50-meter radius of the main shopping arteries of Zeil and Markthalle. In between, urban wounds of the most diverse origins gap. It is now the approach to give one of those gaps a function and an identity that sharpens the center‘s urban environment.
